2024-03-01 00:03:19
Israel’s military cabinet has decided to send an Israeli delegation to Qatar in the coming days to continue negotiations on a deal to free hostages held in the Gaza Strip. This was reported by Kan radio station, Day.Az reports with reference to TASS.
According to her, the decision was made after the ministers heard reports from the negotiators and discussed during a conference call the results of consultations held in Paris on February 23 and 24 with representatives of the United States, Qatar and Egypt to promote a deal with the radical Hamas movement ruling in the Palestinian enclave.
Kan notes that a “delegation of specialists” will be heading to Doha. According to the radio station, the parties will discuss specific issues, including the identities of Palestinian prisoners who are subject to release. At the consultations in Paris, the Israeli delegation was led by the director of the Mossad intelligence service, David Barnea.
According to the radio station, on the night of February 25, the Israeli military cabinet began discussing the details of the deal agreed upon at the Paris meeting. On February 25, ministers will meet for a meeting during which they will continue to study this issue, Kan reports. Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Cabinet would discuss the next steps in negotiations on the release of hostages held by the radical Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip after the return of the Israeli delegation from Paris.
According to Kan, the new deal with the radical Hamas movement involves the return of one hostage held in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a one-day pause in hostilities and the release of ten Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons. According to the radio station, the framework agreement involves a pause in hostilities in the Gaza Strip for about six weeks.
Paris consultations
On February 23 and 24, the second round of multilateral negotiations to resolve the situation in the Gaza Strip took place in Paris. On January 28, AFP reported that US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns met in Paris with representatives of Egypt, Israel and Qatar. NBC reported that the consultations agreed on the basis of a new deal between Hamas and Israel, which includes a phased exchange of hostages held by radicals for Palestinian prisoners, a pause in hostilities and the supply of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
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